Developer Staffing Survey: Needs Outstrip Supply

Needed skills will be hard to find.

Earlier this year, we published the results of a Dr. Dobb's-InformationWeekdeveloper salary survey. It showed that developer salaries were rising gently. The just-completed InformationWeek survey of IT managers, however, shows considerable pressure on IT departments to locate developers with the skill sets they need. The survey covered skills in all IT sectors and technology areas, including standard business programming, mobile, the cloud, web applications, etc.

This first slide indicates that only one quarter of managers expect to find the necessary development skills with ease.

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